- Identification.—[Evelyn Pom.] [Worl. Vin.] 164. [Nourse Camp. Fel.] 143. Fors. Treat. 123. [Lind. Guide], 110. [Pom. Heref.] t. 1. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 146.
- Synonymes.—Herefordshire Red-Streak, [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 625. Scudamore’s Crab.
- Figures.—[Pom. Heref.] t. 1. [Brook. Pom. Brit.] pl. xciii. f. 4.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two inches and a quarter high; roundish, narrowing towards the apex. Skin, deep clear yellow, streaked with red on the shaded side; but red, streaked with deeper red on the side next the sun. Eye, small, with convergent segments, set in a rather deep basin. Stalk, short and slender. Flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, and rather dry.
Specific gravity of the juice, 1079.
A cider apple, which at one period was unsurpassed, but now comparatively but little cultivated.
Perhaps there is no apple which at any period created such a sensation, and of which so much was said and written during the 17th century, as of the Red Streak. Prose and verse were both enlisted in its favor. It was chiefly by the writings of Evelyn it attained its greatest celebrity. Philips, in his poem—Cyder, says
“Let every tree in every garden own
The Red Streak as supreme, whose pulpous fruit,
With gold irradiate, and vermilion, shines
Tempting, not fatal, as the birth of that